“Hello, darling,” he said, his voice dripping with a sweetness that made my skin crawl. He spoke to her as if I weren’t even there—as if we hadn’t just been tangled together moments ago. “I just got home now.”I sat there, frozen and naked on the edge of my bed, listening to them talk happily. The contrast was sickening. He sounded like the perfect, attentive husband, while I was nothing more than a secret hidden in the shadows of his real life.“Come home soon,” I heard Dave say, his eyes locking onto mine with a predatory glint. “I’ll be waiting.”After ending the call, he put the phone back in his pocket, dropped his clothes on the sofa, and walked towards me.“Little bird,” he called. His voice had shifted; the sweetness was gone, replaced by a dark, rough hunger that was nothing like the way he had just spoken to my mother. “Let’s continue from where we stopped, shall we?”Just like that, my anger was swallowed by a burning scorch of desire. My body began to tremble, and I felt t
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